Everything posted by closetojumping
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2029: It Is Happening Again
Why am I blanking on who Adrian Jr's father is?
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Every time I click on a thread in this forum lately, it seems like there's a new hawt taker piling into a topic to mix with the usual gaggle of buffoons. It's somewhat stunning.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
It’s already lasted too long for me. You guys are some overanalyzing dorks sometimes. He either gets approved or he doesn’t, they either file an injunction or whatever to make him eligible and that gets approved or it doesn’t. Whatever the story is that got him here, it mostly boils down to the guy had mental shit going on in 2023 and Akron didn’t handle his status well. If he’s on the field, Texas has a great pass pro OL. If he’s not on the field, this board has already taking every angle from wailing and gnashing of teeth to rationalizing that LG will be fine with anyone not named Hodor Stroh and everything in between. This much discussion around the Guard position has made me start pondering actually jumping.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Does anyone have anything new to say about LG? Or the class in general? Doesn’t seem like it. This is some really boring shit to continue to rehash. The one interesting thing mentioned lately is that billfromlaketravis somehow was able to listen to Jeff Howe for 15 minutes. He’s a nice enough guy and all, but I don’t think I could listen to him for 15 minutes on any subject. I don’t think I could make it 5, now that I think about it. Good grief. I think this thread is finally bottoming out.
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
Huh? We’re on a board with nothing but opinions. Maybe you meant “you’re so fucking mad stupid people have stupid opinions” and that would be closer to the truth, I guess. I’m not mad about anything though. I just think you’re a fucking idiot who is hellbent on shitting all over this board with your ignorant and shitty takes.
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
Except it really isn't. All of us know that you don't know shit about the real staff dynamics at Texas and have nothing connecting you to Sarkisian or the inside of the athletic department. You're just vomiting on the rest of us with your keyboard because Steven and Five hurt your wittle feels by not winning it all, after you've put it in so much idle time and nothing else to help drive the program to better outcomes.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
They were heading to the continent. It's really not important to discuss this any further. 8 people died, 6 of them passengers, and it's a tragic loss for all of their families and friends.
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OU Recruiting 2027: Nagy's Next Victim
Jerry Schmitt has been moved into a new role at OU, Chief of Staff. They're essentially putting him out to pasture after several years of major injury issues and the guy just falling behind developments of other programs. So, you're thinking, man, they must have brought in a young, innovative guy to right the ship and catch them up, right? No. They promote a guy from within who had been fired at his last two S&C leadership roles. Article from Sooners Illustrated spoilered below: Longtime strength coach Jerry Schmidt moving into new role for Oklahoma NORMAN — Oklahoma will have a new voice at the head of its strength and conditioning program. Longtime strength and conditioning coach Jerry Schmidt is stepping down from his position and moving into a new role on Oklahoma's staff, a source confirmed to Sooners Illustrated on Friday afternoon. Associate director for sports performance James Dobson is set to take over for Schmidt as the new head of OU's strength and conditioning program. OUInsider was first to report the staff changes Friday afternoon. Schmidt, who has nearly 40 years of experience and spent 23 of those years in Norman, has decided to step down and move into a new role within the program. The 63-year-old strength coach spent each of the last four seasons overseeing Oklahoma's strength program as the team's director of sports enhancement and strength and conditioning. It marked his second stint in Norman after previously spending 19 years as the Sooners' director of sports performance from 1999-2017, when Bob Stoops brought him aboard following his hiring as head coach. Stoops and Schmidt previously worked together on staff at Florida, where Schmidt served as the strength coach during the Gators' national championship season in 1996. That was one of two national championships Schmidt was part of during his extended career. He helped Oklahoma win a BCS national championship during the 2000 season. During his first stint with the Sooners, Schmidt — affectionately called Schmidty by players — helped OU make four national championship appearances, win 11 Big 12 titles and a 202-50 overall record as the program averaged more than 10 wins per season during those 19 years. It was during his first stint at Oklahoma that Schmidt got to know Brent Venables, who was Stoops' linebackers coach and defensive coordinator from 1999-2011. When Venables was hired as Oklahoma's head coach in December 2021, he tabbed Schmidt to return as the program's head of strength and conditioning. (Photo: John E. Moore III/Getty Images, Getty) "That's a critical hire on so many levels," Venables said at the time. "Jerry's values, expectations and standards align with mine and ours as a program. He's a detail guy, is super consistent and tough, but he's reasonable. He's the same guy whether you're winning by 40 or down by 14. I think it's important from a leadership standpoint that we have someone who has clear vision about what all of that looks like. "So, while his experience is tremendous, he's also an effective communicator and excellent motivator. He's going to bring out the absolute best in our guys. He'll stretch them and squeeze them in ways maybe they haven't been before, but it's going to benefit them and create the transferable skills both on the field and off. He's going to set them up for success for the rest of their lives." Prior to returning to Oklahoma, Schmidt spent four seasons at Texas A&M from 2018-21. A graduate of Nebraska, where he was a student assistant for the Huskers under legendary coach Tom Osborne, Schmidt began his coaching career at Nore Dame in 1987. The following year, he went to Oklahoma State as director of strength and conditioning before returning to Notre Dame in 1989 as the program's strength and conditioning coordinator. He spent six seasons with the Fighting Irish before joining the Gators in 1995 as part of Steve Spurrier's staff. During his nearly 40-year career as a strength coach, Schmidt worked with seven Heisman Trophy winners — Jason White, Sam Bradford, Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray at Oklahoma; Danny Wuerffel at Florida; Barry Sanders at Oklahoma State; and Tim Brown at Notre Dame — and has trained 44 first-round NFL Draft picks, 68 first-team All-Americans and dozens of players who won national awards. He has been part of teams that made six national championship game appearances, along with two College Football Playoff semifinals and another CFP appearance this season. Now, with the spring semester starting and winter workouts underway, Dobson will oversee the Sooners' strength program. Dobson has been at Oklahoma since 2022 after previously serving as strength and conditioning coach at Vanderbilt under Derek Mason and at Nebraska for seven seasons under Bo Pelini. A native of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, Dobson earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Wisconsin in 1996 and a master of science and administration degree from Central Michigan in 2004. Dobson is a certified master strength and conditioning specialist and a member of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
That guy is such a simple person. They absolutely should get an A at DL, QB, and TE. They got an experienced QB to be an emergency QB. They got an in-line TE who can block and catch with years of experience. They took both experienced starting talent at NT and got a highly touted former recruit that they can spend time developing. Just dumb. Texas handled the portal deftly outside of IOL, which was an unmitigated disaster.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Ever known any pilots?
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Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: It's Miller Time
There are patrons specifically for basketball, but some of the basketball NIL is just stunning. The Big East can push a ton of their revenue share to basketball, which has to become a rather large advantage. Then, as discussed, there are schools choosing to focus major money on specific programs and basketball is certainly one of them for more than a few. Texas is likely to seek targets of opportunity and guys who will be around for more than a year. If and when they have a “this could be the year” moment, there’s a strong likelihood that they go big on a couple of transfers who complete the puzzle.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Is there a credible source on this or did some twitter asshat craft this out of whole cloth? I assume it’s made up. Otherwise, LSU and Texas Tech would be 2-3 after Arizona State.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I actually believe that has changed as well. Graduate or regular, they had to hit the portal window. When they sign is a different point, but they had to get in, first.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Arnold and Itkin are indeed two very big donors on the NIL front. Sounds like terrible news for one or both of their families.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I remember it well. My roommate and I and a girl who was iced in with us went to see a movie at The Arboretum. Relic, maybe? On the way back to the apartment, my roommate tried to stop at a red light and we just slid sideways through the intersection at like 15 mph in slow motion, just praying that no one was going to plow into us. I remember the ice seemed like it was several inches thick and have never seen anything like it since.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I don’t think I ever told this story, but I got a job at the place that changed my career trajectory by getting an interview because of a referral from a friend. That friend was someone I met on Hornfans. Still buddies and business partners to this day. Anyway, the guy interviewing me stops me in the middle of the interview and says, “sorry, but i have to ask this: are you horndfl from Hornfans?” “Uh, yes?” “Man, I thought you were a lot older. “ Apparently my friend got me the interview by telling his boss that. Probably the only reason I got the job over a bunch of Big 5 consulting or accounting bros. It worked out for everyone. People who say the degree or the UT connection doesn’t matter are off their fucking rockers. I’ve hired many people because the results from interviews were a bunch of quality clustered candidates, so we just took the one with the UT degree and called it a day. Worked out most of the time when that happened. Obviously, I’m talking about entry-level analyst types of roles, but folks have to start somewhere.
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Depression, OCD, and whatever else ails you between the ears
My daughter made it home, so that's great news. Regarding worrying about yours, here's praying that things go y'all's way. I hope the medical folks are on the ball and giving her good advice that she's following.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I'm not biased against you guys, I'd just like to see you all killed. Or, as I think the bard actually intended, just those involved with using law to actually corrupt the system. Let's just kill all of those lawyers. Trinidad Chambliss' first.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I was being illustrative with job requirements, but there are many instances in which groups can legally exclude entry based on their own criteria. I also don't see how the premise of athletes becoming employees gets avoided for forever. It's currently just a lie agreed upon.